Arrogance or Digital Arrogance – Evolution of Digital Lifestyle.

Writer is Chief Visionary Officer of World’s First Smart Thinking Tank ”Beyond The Horizon” and most diverse professional of Pakistan. See writer’s profile at http://beyondthehorizon.com.pk/about/ and can be contacted at “pakistan.bth@gmail.com”

I was glancing through channels, why I only glance through channels and not watch through channels?

because:

“No Pakistani TV channel is worth watching”, one can only glance through them at the most. Those stuck with Pakistani Channels will never grow intellectually rather decline mentally & socially and soon to become retarded.

Today, while glancing through Pak channels, a talk show on Express TV caught my attention, in which one of the guests, a PPP representative Palwasha Behram, was busy playing on her phone while other guests were discussing the subject. This posture of hers displayed the arrogance of traditional political symbol who inherit politics like assets.

Her posture was reflecting arrogance to her co participants, arrogance to TV channel, arrogance to viewers and in general arrogance to public. Her posture reflects that she does not need to listen anything and she is from that epitome of wisdom & status where she only expects others to listen to her.

How such arrogance should be responded? TV channel should ban such guests who use mobile phone during talk show, public should not watch such symbols of arrogance.

I call such arrogance as digital arrogance which is now visible in social, family & working environment. If we want to reflect that we don’t regard presence of our colleagues or friends or family members, we express our arrogance or devil may care attitude, we focus our eyes on mobile phone, our fingers on mobile and a lethargic body language which makes the other present in the room as if they don’t exist or they are meaningless.

For some it has become a habit of Time managment and for some it is addiction of finding peace, entertainment, information & learning.

Whatever is the reason, Time has come that we seek permission from those present in a room as a gesture of courtesy before we switch our focus on mobile phone.

Digital lifestyle needs rules, manners and willingness to regulate it, learn it, teach it and use it without destroying our social, cultural & family norms. We must remind ourselves that we are not machines, that we interact more with machines than human beings.

Let’s not be a digital monster, let’s create digital sanity of awareness, moral & political battles, exposing ills & exposing corrupt elites. Allow Binary digits of “0” and “1” work in cohesion for humanity, of humanity and for humanity.